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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. Now back in print, this completely revised and updated edition adds perspectives on eating disorders, postpartum depression, biological psychology, important...
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Publisher
Motivational Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Closer to Paradise: A Mother's Journey through Crisis and Healing tells the story of how my teenaged son nosedived into a suicidal crisis and how I became a Caregiver overnight. My initial attempts to partner with my son's treatment team were met with blaming and shaming, complicating the already difficult task of keeping my son alive; learning the hard way how to navigate the complex maze of the behavioral health care system. During this situation,...
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Publisher
Motivational Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Beautiful Disasters" follows the downward spiral of the author's son from when his birth dad died when Cameron was 15 until his own untimely death at age 18. The author feels that her son's grief manifested into major depression which was the precursor to meth addiction, breaking the law, and finally his own death by suicide. This book shares the mental health professionals visits and rehabilitation they pursed in hopes of saving Cameron. The goal...
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Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Behavioral Problems among Omani young people and reliability testing of a self-reported version of SDQIntroduction: Psychological and psychiatric problems among children and adolescents are evolving and if not addressed it might lead to adult mental health problems 1&2. Studies about mental health in Omani children and young people are very scanty. The published community studies on behavioral and emotional problems among Omani children looked at...
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Publisher
British Columbia Campus
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This book is designed to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. The focus on behaviour and empiricism has produced a text that is better organized, has fewer chapters, and is somewhat shorter than many of the leading books. The beginning of each section includes learning objectives; throughout the body of each section are key terms in bold followed by their definitions in italics; key takeaways, and exercises...
Publisher
Ubiquity Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Publishing Addiction Science is a comprehensive guide for addiction scientists facing the complex process of contributing to scholarly journals. Written by an international group of addiction journal editors and their colleagues, it discusses how to write research articles and systematic reviews, choose a journal, respond to reviewers’ reports, become a reviewer, and resolve the often difficult authorship, ethical and citation issues that arise...
Publisher
Frontiers Research Topics
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In this ebook, a collection of 18 papers presents empirical research, as well as novel theoretical considerations, on how multiple identities are being managed by the individuals holding them. The papers draw on theories from social psychology in the context of the social identity approach. The first chapter presents eight papers on different types of multiple identity configurations in a variety of contexts, and the costs and benefits of these configurations...
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Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Objective :Co morbid obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is common among bipolar patients. We aimed to assess the comorbidity rate of obsessive compulsive disorder and symptoms (OCS) in patients with bipolar disorder and the eventual association with functionality.Methods :30 out-patients with Bipolar Disorder (BD) were recruited for this study f rom September to October 2018. Only remitted BD patients were included using Hamilton Depression Rating...
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Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Introduction:According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report 2001, around 450 million people suffer from mental health disorders globally. Despite the high prevalence and potentially disabling consequences of mental disorders, specialized mental health services are extremely deficient. Over 70% of this population does not have access to mental healthcare. These facts clearly manifest an urgent need of looking into other methods of treatment...
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Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Objectives:Collect and evaluate the latest information on post partum psychosis focusing especially on the first episodes and their classification.Background:Postpartum psychosis is a rare (1 in 1000 childbirths) and severe disorder that usually occur within the first 4 weeks after childbirth. It can occur alone in the perinatal context but is often associated with mood-disorder diathesis. Postpartum psychosis usually happens in primiparity, if so,...
Author
Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Objectives:The objective of this work is to review the latest scientific evidence on the treatment of bipolar disease in perinatal period.Background:Bipolar disorder is an illness characterized by episodes of depression and mania affecting approximately 1-3% of the population. The management of bipolar disorder includes an approach involving psychoeducation, psychological therapies and psychotropic medication. The risk of relapse for both depressive...
Author
Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Objectives: The current study was done to determine the prevalence of generalized anxiety, panic and phobic symptoms and disorders in schizophrenia and to compare the sociodemographic and clinical variables between schizophrenia patients with and without anxiety symptoms and disorders.Background and Aims:Anxiety symptoms in schizophrenia was described first in 1949 when it was named as u201cpseudoneurotic schizophreniau201d, but there were lack of...
Author
Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Objectives: To analyse the influence of Greek mythology in the origin of psychiatric terminology, as well as in the early psychopathologic concepts. Background and aims: The ancient Greek culture is the root of many aspects of western culture. In particular, more than 90% of medical terms have Greco-Roman origins, many of them derived from Greek mythology. We aim to review how those ancient tales inspired the daily practice of modern psychiatry. Materials...
Author
Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Low- and middle-income countries have very few mental health professionals, and efforts to increase access to treatment are a global priority. However, beliefs about and treatment of mental illness are expressed differently among cultures, and understanding of these factors is a critical step in developing treatment options. Specifically in Ethiopia, current efforts to address mental illness often lack psychotherapeutic interventions, and it is unclear...
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Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Objectives:As history of prior attempts is one of the highest risk factor for commited suicide, the main objective of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of a 12 month follow-up telephone-based intervention at reducing future suicide re-attempts.Background:Suicide is a major health issue worldwide involving nearly 800.000 deaths per year (WHO, 2017 and is the principal cause of external death in the Basque Country resulting in 180 casualties...
Author
Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
According to Dieneru2019s tripartite model of subjective well-being (SWB), SWB is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that captures both cognitive (life satisfaction) and affective (positive and negative affect) evaluations of oneu2019s life. However, little consensus has been achieved to date regarding the structure of SWB. A large number of studies have been conducted from a variable-centered perspective, whereas only a handful of studies have...
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Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The experience of using and interacting with the newest Virtual Reality and computing technologies is profoundly affected by the extent to which we feel ourselves to be really ‘present’ in computer-generated and -mediated augmented worlds. This feeling of 'Presence’, of “being inside the mediated world”, is key to understanding developments in applications such as interactive entertainment, gaming, psychotherapy, education, scientific visualisation,...
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Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Background and Goal of Study: Emergence delirium (ED) is the most frequent brain dysfunction in children recovering from general anaesthesia. Postoperative delirium is related to prolonged duration of deep anaesthesia including burst suppression periods in elderly1,2. In children depth of anaesthesia as measured by Bispectral Index shows no correlation with ED3,4. The aim of this prospective, observational study (NCT02481999) was to determine whether...
Author
Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Though obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is known to cause significant burden to patients and their caregivers, there is limited data on its impact on family functioning. The study abstracted here examines the determinants of family functioning in caregivers of persons with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Severity of illness, contamination/washing symptoms in the patient along with accommodative behaviors, stress levels, depression and anxiety...
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